How to upgrade your MacBook Pro's hard drive Replacing the hard drive in any MacBook Pro takes a little surgery, but it's not so hard that you need to pay Apple customer support to do it for you.

Here’s just a quick tutorial on how to install a second hard drive or solid state drive to your old Macbook Pro by replacing the optical drive with a SSD/HDD in case you need any extra storage ...

If you have an old MacBook Pro with one foot in the grave, the single best thing you can do to breathe new life into it is replace its traditional spinning hard drive with a solid-state drive.

As for the software piece of this, you have a few options. I decided I just wanted to install a clean version of Yosemite on my flashy new solid-state drive and eliminate the clunkiness.